Nico DiMeo

Nico DiMeo was a Maranzano crime family gangster.

Biography
Nico DiMeo was from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and he joined the American Mafia under Don Salvatore Maranzano. DiMeo became one of his lieutenants during the Castellammarese War, and he was the second man to cut his hand and shake Lucky Luciano's hand (as a sign of initiation and respect) following Luciano's murder of Joe Masseria, in 1931.